# Piedmont City Council Compare records and positions simply between Adam Hundt, Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Nancy A. Beninati, and 2 more for Piedmont City Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of three at-large seats on Piedmont's City Council. These seats are up this cycle. The council has five members in all. Terms are four years and staggered, with a limit of two in a row. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Piedmont is a charter city in Alameda County with about 11,000 residents. The Council picks one of its own members to serve as Mayor. An appointed City Administrator runs day-to-day operations. - Jurisdiction: City of Piedmont - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Seats: 3 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/piedmont-council - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Adam Hundt** — Businessman - **Sunny Bostrom-Fleming** - **Nancy A. Beninati** — Supervising Deputy Attorney-General - **Tom Ramsey** — Architect/City Councilmember · Incumbent - **Bill Reichle** — Retired University Administrator A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Five candidates are running for three at-large seats on Piedmont's City Council. Incumbent Tom Ramsey is one. The four newcomers are Nancy Beninati, Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Adam Hundt, and Bill Reichle. Piedmont's City Council is a 5-member, entirely at-large body (no districts) elected to staggered 4-year terms, with a limit of two consecutive terms: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this roughly 11,000-resident charter city in Alameda County. The Council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor -- it is not a separately elected office -- and an appointed City Administrator runs day-to-day operations. Ramsey is the only sitting officeholder in the field; the other two seats up this cycle are open, with no returning incumbent on the ballot. The City Clerk's own nomination rules extend the filing period to Aug. 12 only for a seat whose eligible incumbent does not file for reelection by the original Aug. 7 deadline -- consistent with two of the three seats drawing no incumbent. ## Nancy A. Beninati A Supervising Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice. Beninati has spent more than 25 years there in public service. That includes work on California's Racial and Identity Profiling Act. They also teach law and public policy at UC Berkeley. In Piedmont, they have served six years on the Civil Service Commission. They currently serve on the Recreation Commission. They are a past President of the League of Women Voters of Piedmont. All of this comes from their own filed candidate statement. **Strengths:** Directly relevant civic experience. That is six years on Piedmont's Civil Service Commission plus ongoing Recreation Commission service. This is Beninati's first run for elected office. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting on their candidacy or platform was found beyond their own filed statement. **Keep in mind:** Their statement lists broad priorities. They are fiscal responsibility, public safety, climate resilience, and housing policy. Beninati does not commit to specific positions on any. Voters weighing specifics should look for that detail elsewhere. ## Sunny Bostrom-Fleming A lifelong Piedmont resident and Piedmont High School graduate, age 80. She describes her occupation as "Art Curator/Collector" in her own filed candidate statement. She filed no ballot designation with the county. Her statement centers on two issues. She credits roadway cameras posted at Piedmont's entrances for a police arrest. That arrest followed a March 24, 2026 home-invasion robbery. She also cites decades of advocacy for swim education in Piedmont's schools. **Strengths:** A long personal history in Piedmont. She names two specific priorities, public-safety cameras and swim education, rather than a generic platform list. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting on her candidacy was found. She is the only one of the five candidates who filed no ballot designation. **Keep in mind:** An OCR reading of her first name came back as "Sonny." Three independent official sources read "Sunny." That is treated as an OCR artifact, not a real discrepancy. ## Adam Hundt A first-time candidate who spent over a decade in business development and operations management. Hundt worked at Bay Area technology companies, including eBay and Cisco Systems. They then earned a Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2025. There they studied the clean energy transition. They also hold an MBA and an MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan. Their filed ballot designation is "Businessman." Hundt and their wife moved to Piedmont in 2021. Their statement centers on carrying out the Piedmont Climate Action Plan. That includes home and building electrification. **Strengths:** Graduate training directly tied to Hundt's stated priority. Their Master of Public Policy focused on the clean-energy transition. They also have a business-operations career. **Trade-offs:** A first-time candidate, and a more recent Piedmont resident than the other four. Hundt moved here in 2021. No independent reporting on their candidacy was found. **Keep in mind:** Their climate-focused platform is the most specific single-issue focus among the five candidates' statements. Weigh it against the other four's broader priority lists. ## Tom Ramsey The field's only sitting incumbent, seeking a second term. Ramsey has four years on the City Council. Before that they spent seven years on the Planning Commission. That comes from their own filed candidate statement and the city's own councilmember roster. Their filed ballot designation is "Architect/City Councilmember." They are a practicing architect with more than 30 years leading Bay Area design teams. Their statement cites cutting the ribbon on Piedmont's new Police and Fire Dispatch Center. It says Ramsey is endorsed by their City Council colleagues, the current mayor, and former mayors. **Strengths:** A full term of sitting Council experience plus prior Planning Commission service. Ramsey's own statement cites endorsements from sitting Council colleagues and both the current and former mayors. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting weighing their first term's record was found. **Keep in mind:** The endorsements Ramsey cites are self-reported in their own filed statement. None of them has been checked here one by one. ## Bill Reichle Recently retired as Assistant Vice Chancellor at UC Berkeley. There they built strategic plans, budgets, and policy for campus departments. Reichle describes those departments as mirroring Piedmont's own. They cover police, emergency management, facilities, human resources, disability access, sustainability, and capital projects. Their filed ballot designation is "Retired University Administrator." Reichle and their wife have lived in Piedmont for 26 years and raised their daughters there. They have served on the boards of the Piedmont Education Foundation, Camp Augusta, and the PHS Boosters. **Strengths:** A campus-administration background Reichle frames as directly like city governance. They also have 26 years of Piedmont residency and several local board seats. **Trade-offs:** A first-time candidate for elected office. No independent reporting on their candidacy was found. **Keep in mind:** Their statement frames their UC Berkeley role as directly transferable to city governance. Voters can weigh how closely a campus department really mirrors a small city government. ## Sources 1. [Alameda County Registrar of Voters -- official Candidate List system (electionId 260, "General Election - 11/03/2026 (Official)"), queried directly via its own JSON/HTML API (POST /rov_app/candidatelist/) for Piedmont's single City race (categoryId 600, raceId 106, "For Members of City Council, Piedmont," Vote For: 3): Nancy A. Beninati, Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Adam Hundt, Tom Ramsey, and Bill Reichle. Names ballot designations verbatim as filed: "Supervising Deputy Attorney-General" (Beninati), no ballot designation on file (Bostrom-Fleming), "Businessman" (Hundt), "Architect/City Councilmember" (Ramsey), "Retired University Administrator" (Reichle). The system's own "Incumbent" field reads "N" for all five candidates -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable and instead confirms incumbency independently against the City of Piedmont's own councilmember roster (see piedmont-clerk-council-2026).](https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/rov_app/candidatelist) 2. [City of Piedmont -- "Meet Your Councilmembers" page: names the five sitting members of the City Council -- Mayor Betsy Smegal Andersen, Vice Mayor Conna McCarthy, and Councilmembers Jennifer Long, Tom Ramsey, and Lorrel Plimier -- the basis for confirming that Ramsey alone, among the five 2026 candidates, is a sitting officeholder.](https://piedmont.ca.gov/government/city_council/meet_your_councilmembers) 3. [City of Piedmont -- "Elections" page: states City Council members (and the PUSD Board of Education) are "elected at-large (the City is not divided into districts)"; terms "are 4 years, with a maximum of 2 consecutive terms"; and "Piedmont's mayor is selected by the members of the City Council" rather than separately elected -- structural facts rather than a bare candidate roster.](https://www.piedmont.ca.gov/government/Elections) 4. [City of Piedmont's own "vote2026" election page, linking each of the five candidates' official, city-published candidate statement (scanned PDF, filed with and date-stamped by the City Clerk between Jul. 16 and Aug. 12, 2026, OCR'd for this dataset): Nancy Beninati (filed Jul. 16) -- Supervising Deputy Attorney General at the CA DOJ, also teaches law and public policy at UC Berkeley, six years on Piedmont's Civil Service Commission, current Recreation Commission service, past President of the League of Women Voters of Piedmont; Tom Ramsey (filed Jul. 31) -- practicing architect and the sitting incumbent, citing seven prior years on the Planning Commission before four years on Council; Bill Reichle (filed Aug. 3) -- recently retired as UC Berkeley's Assistant Vice Chancellor, served on the boards of the Piedmont Education Foundation, Camp Augusta, and the PHS Boosters; Adam Hundt (filed Aug. 12) -- over a decade in business development and operations at Bay Area tech companies (eBay, Cisco Systems, startups), a 2025 Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins, wants to help implement the Piedmont Climate Action Plan; Sunny Bostrom-Fleming (filed Aug. 12) -- lifelong Piedmont resident, self-described "Art Curator/Collector" age 80, whose statement centers on public safety (crediting roadway cameras for a March 24, 2026 home-invasion arrest) and lifelong advocacy for swim education in Piedmont schools; this dataset's OCR pass read her first name as "Sonny," treated as an OCR artifact against two independent official electronic listings (the county's own candidate list and this same city page) that both read "Sunny."](https://www.piedmont.ca.gov/vote2026) 5. [The Piedmont Exedra -- "Five in the running for three open City Council seats" (Aug. 21, 2026), read in full: independently names the same five candidates (Ramsey as the field's incumbent, Beninati, Bostrom-Fleming, Hundt, and Reichle as newcomers), matching the county's certified list exactly, and notes the city cancelled a separate school-board election as uncontested; the article defers candidate-by-candidate depth to promised future interviews not yet published as of this dataset's retrieval.](https://www.piedmontexedra.com/2026/08/five-in-the-running-for-three-open-city-council-seats/) 6. [Wikipedia's Piedmont, California article -- 2020 census population (11,270); incorporated Jan. 31, 1907; became a charter city in 1922-23; used only for population and incorporation-date context, cross-checked against the city's own site for structural and term-limit facts.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont,_California) 7. [City of Piedmont's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (agency code PMT, confirmed via NetFile's own public agency directory), queried directly via its own QuickNameSearch and filings/byCandidate JSON API for all five 2026 candidates, with several name-variant queries for the three who returned nothing. Real finding: as of retrieval, no 2026 committee filing (Form 410/460/470/501) exists for any of the five candidates. Beninati, Hundt, and Reichle have no filer record at all under any name variant searched. Ramsey and Bostrom-Fleming each have a legacy filer record with no 2026 activity: Ramsey's only filings are from his original 2022 campaign (Form 501 and 410 in 2022, a Form 497, and three Form 460s running through Jan. 2023); Bostrom-Fleming's only filings are a Form 501 from 2022 and two Form 470s (the short-form for candidates not anticipating over $2,000 raised or spent), one from 2022 and one from 2024.](https://netfile.com/public/pmt/campaign/elections) ## The rest of the ballot Piedmont City Council is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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